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STORY: UN / SYRIA
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 23 JANUARY 2018, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Exterior, United Nations Headquarters
23 JANUARY 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vassily Alekseevich Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“The US representatives and the UK representative without any shame and prior to any evidence, and not to mention an investigation, hastily accused the Syrian as they call it a regime and now they are attempting to drag Russia into this as well.”
4. Med shot, US delegation
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vassily Alekseevich Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“We wish to rise above these differences and to propose an establishment of a new international investigative body which on the basis of irreproachable and corroborated information received from transparent and credible sources would be able to establish evidence for the Security Council to identify perpetrators in the use of chemical weapons.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“Make no mistake, the United States will continue to pursue along with this Council those who used the chemical weapons to ensure that they are held accountable for their atrocities.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“When Russia doesn’t like the facts, they try to distract the conversation, because the facts come back over and over again to the truth that Russia wants to hide that the Assad regime continues to use chemical weapons against its own people.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“So we are not going to accept any Russian proposal that undermines our abilities to get to the truth or the politicizes that need to be independent and impartial investigation. If they want to work in good faith towards that goal, we are ready to reestablish the JIM with its original independent and impartial mandate right now.”
12. Med shot, Syrian delegation
13. SOUNDBITE (French) François Delattre, Permanent Representative of the French Republic to the United Nations:
“The criminals who assume the responsibilities to use and designed these barbaric weapons must understand that there will be no impunity. At stake is the future is the whole of our collective security system, we cannot allow these fundamental standards to be breached without consequences being brought to forth.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Allen, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations:
“Russia has great influence over the Assad regime. For the sake of the Syrian people, for the sake of preventing future use of chemical weapons, we call on Russia to persuade their Syrian friends to get rid of that chemical weapons and to comply fully with the chemical weapons convention.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
The Russian Ambassador told the Security Council today the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) “hastily accused” the Syrian Government for a recent chemical attack “without any shame and prior to any evidence,” adding that “now they are attempting to drag Russia into this as well.”
Speaking to the Security Council today (23 Jan), the Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations (UN) Vassily Alekseevich Nebenzia proposed an “establishment of a new international investigative body which on the basis of irreproachable and corroborated information received from transparent and credible sources would be able to establish evidence for the Security Council to identify perpetrators in the use of chemical weapons.”
The US Ambassador Nikki Haley said that her country will ensure those who used the chemical weapons will be held accountable for their atrocities.
Hayley reiterated “we are not going to accept any Russian proposal that undermines our abilities to get to the truth or the politicizes that need to be independent and impartial investigation.”
She added “if they want to work in good faith towards that goal, we are ready to reestablish the JIM with its original independent and impartial mandate right now.”
French Ambassador François Delattre said “the criminals who assume the responsibilities to use and designed these barbaric weapons must understand that there will be no impunity.”
He added “at stake is the future is the whole of our collective security system, we cannot allow these fundamental standards to be breached without consequences being brought to forth.”
The British Ambassador Jonathan Allen said “Russia has great influence over the Assad regime. For the sake of the Syrian people, for the sake of preventing future use of chemical weapons, we call on Russia to persuade their Syrian friends to get rid of that chemical weapons and to comply fully with the chemical weapons convention.”
According to reports, at least 20 people were killed Monday (22 Jan) in a chemical weapon attack in East Ghouta, near Damascus. The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today in Paris called out Russia for protecting the Syrian Government for using chemical weapons against its civilian.
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